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==Moving to Residential Care== | ==Moving to Residential Care== | ||
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A prospective resident (or applicant) may come from a variety of places while waiting to move to a residential care facility. This includes living at home, in an assisted living residence, in a hospital, an alternate level of care (transition care facility) , in a non-subsidized residential care bed, or in a subsidized residential care bed that is not in their preferred facility or community. | A prospective resident (or applicant) may come from a variety of places while waiting to move to a residential care facility. This includes living at home, in an assisted living residence, in a hospital, an alternate level of care (transition care facility) , in a non-subsidized residential care bed, or in a subsidized residential care bed that is not in their preferred facility or community. | ||
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People who are not able to move directly into their preferred facility can put their names on a waiting list to be transferred to their facility of choice. The health authorities maintain transfer waiting lists in addition to the lists of people waiting for initial placement. In practice, transfers from other residential care facilities are becoming far less common, in part because of the complex care needs. Today the average length of residence for people from the time of their admittance to the care facility to the end of life is only six to eighteen months. Families find that the waiting time to transfer commonly exceeds that, and one health authority states it does not permit transfers within the first two months. | People who are not able to move directly into their preferred facility can put their names on a waiting list to be transferred to their facility of choice. The health authorities maintain transfer waiting lists in addition to the lists of people waiting for initial placement. In practice, transfers from other residential care facilities are becoming far less common, in part because of the complex care needs. Today the average length of residence for people from the time of their admittance to the care facility to the end of life is only six to eighteen months. Families find that the waiting time to transfer commonly exceeds that, and one health authority states it does not permit transfers within the first two months. | ||
==Costs== | ==Costs== | ||
